In the ancient city of Oxyrhynchus, just west of the Nile, a team led by archaeologists Esther Pons of Spain’s National Archaeological Museum and Maite Mascort of the University of Barcelona ...
A forensic artist hopes the sculpture will help humanize the mummy, which appeared at Australia's Grafton High School under ...
Mann works for the Victorian Institute of Forensic Medicine (VFIM) in Melbourne and has sculpted faces for several historical ...
Jennifer Mann, the forensic sculptor revealed the journey of a facial reconstruction process for an ancient Egyptian mummy.
Not to put too fine a point on it, a mummy is an old dead body. But unlike a skeleton or a fossil, a mummy still retains some of the soft tissue it had when it was alive—most often skin, but ...
Incredible ancient Egyptian discoveries uncovered in the last six years, from golden-tongued mummies to a slyly smiling ...
This story appears in the November 2009 issue of National Geographic magazine. In 1888 an Egyptian farmer digging in the sand near the village of Istabl Antar uncovered a mass grave. The bodies ...
While the ancient Egyptians may be the best-known mummy makers, they were far from the first. A very sophisticated fishing tribe called the Chinchoros, who lived on the north coast of what is now ...
Gold has long been regarded as a safe-haven investment and in times of economic uncertainty or market volatility, investors tend to flock to this precious metal as a hedge against inflation and a ...
Alex Ebkarian, COO and co-founder of Allegiance Gold, says the price of gold "shot higher and beyond [record highs] due to a confluence of economic and geopolitical issues like rising inflation, a ...